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- On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.
- A musician in an all-girl band and a bricklayer join forces as they both try to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing economic fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love.
- Michael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Tímar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom.
- Simultaneously filmed Hungarian version of the German film Menschen vom Variete: a marksman and a magician in a show troupe feud backstage over the magician's exotic former wife.
- Narcissus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a "modern" life. She is an attractive young woman - and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries.
- In 1918, a group of soldiers of various nationalities conspires to desert the imperial Austro-Hungarian army.
- In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 1944 that saved his life. Painful memories start coming to Náday.
- A woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.
- Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
- In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
- Mail author for translation. Futbólia minisztertanácsa ehatározza, hogy megszerzi az ország- nak a világhírû magyar csodacsatárt. Duca tengernagyra bízzák az akció végrehajtását. A magyar csapat éppen Svájcban ját- szik, Duca tehát odautazik embereivel. A labdarúgokat két nyugaton élõ magyar--Bruno és Jóska--követi a szállodába, hogy töltõtollakat adjon el nekik. Véletlenül õket is lefény- képezik, s Duca tengernagy Jóskát raboltatja el. A szeren--csétlennek döntõ mérkõzésen kell játszania, a dolog botrányba fullad, s a szurkolók már-már forradalmat robbantanak ki..
- Twenty-year-old Laszlo Sz., a driver's mate steals the money he should have posted and wandering around Budapest, visiting bars, restaurants, pinball parlors and various other places trying to make the day different and meaningful.
- For many years, the Vajkays have been desperately hoping that their unfortunate, ugly daughter will finally find her mate and happiness. Even now, they send Pacsirta away for a few days to visit relatives and introduce her to the widowed father of three. The lonely couple reunite with their old friends. They go to the theatre, which they haven't been to for years because Pacsirta can't stand the smell of theatre. After the performance, Vajkay is invited to the casino by his former table mate. The old man, who has given up everything years ago, now spends the night having fun, and at dawn, in a moment of bitter sobering up, he and his wife face for the first time their ruined lives, their lost happiness sacrificed for their daughter.
- When a rich man, intending to go back to work, puts his villa up for sale, the butler hires a couple of agents to tell prospective customers the place is a bad buy.
- Two war comrades return home to their country village. At the vine feast Katinka, unspoiled niece of one of them, gets engaged to the other, Gyorgy. Then he travels to the city and falls for a flirtatious rich girl, breaking Katinka's heart. He'll soon discover the truth. First (semisilent) Mártha Eggerth film.
- Mimi, a young girl returning home from, is greeted by her father at home with the news that he is getting married. His fiancée is the same age as his daughter. Mimi tries to make her father, who is madly in love, to come to his senses by faking a relationship with her father's friend.
- A tale about Budapest in the 1950-s, where a teacher in love, a naive young maid, a respectful waiter and a busy doctor become unlikely friends with the same purpose: to win the main price of the "Totó"-lottery.
- In the coal mine of the fictitious village called Sajókút, the tunnel collapses on the people there due to a botched explosion. Those trapped try to fight for survival, while those left on the surface try with all their might to save them.
- Simultaneously filmed German version of a Hungarian romantic comedy.A singing, drinking, devil may care young man racks up debts but refuses to marry an heiress whose fortune would help restore his family's hopes.
- The wasteful Ferenc Noszty gets into serious trouble when even his family can't help him pay back his debts. There seems to be no other way, so they find him a rich girl to marry.
- Un grupo de pasajeros de un tren deben permanecer en una estación durante una noche tormentosa. Unos contrabandistas de la zona tratan de asustarlos.
- Biographical film about the writer Imre Madách.
- Set during the reign of Emperor Joseph II, the story centers on a Transylvanian widow who welcomes the gentle advances of her country-loving monarch, but when she is ordered to the castle, she is horrified to discover that she has been the victim of a fatal misunderstanding.
- Taken from author's Comments below: The story concerns the faithlessness of Sandor Aracsine for his wife Julis. Into this story, which takes place in a little fishing village on the bank of a river, comes Peter Rostas.) He falls in love with the wife and this leads to a tangled chain of events...across the rolling Hungaria countryside. The tangled chain is unscrambled for the best at the end.
- The film is an interpretation of everyday life and privacy as well as the first love-triangle story after 1945. Benko Lajos, the country librarian, is stationed in the capital. In lack of a suitable apartment, his wife and children have to stay in the country.